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by sdze 1461 days ago
Containerization is overrated in the sense, that you can have it all for "free" with chroot in openbsd or jail in freebsd.
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rahen 1461 days ago
chroots have a filesystem namespace but miss user, process and network namespaces. Besides, the Docker registry is fairly convenient.
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sdze 1461 days ago
Aha... ? And? What do you want to achieve? That is the question.
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kstrauser 1461 days ago
FreeBSD jails have those things.
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rahen 1461 days ago
Jails can use the Docker registry?

The nice thing with Dockerfiles and the Docker registry is how quickly I get a reproducible, stateless, isolated environment for any large, proprietary or foreign app I may need, without resorting to a VM or polluting my system. All it takes is an Ubuntu or CentOS base, pull the apps and its dependencies, throw it away when I'm done while keeping a lean Alpine system underneath.

Jails would require me to set things from scratch each time I need a new app, even for a short while. It's just impractical.

I'm considering Nix as a potential alternative, but it doesn't work on the BSDs yet. If you know a way to run "modern workloads" in a KISS, convenient, Unix-y way, please let me know.

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nix23 1460 days ago
>I'm considering Nix as a potential alternative, but it doesn't work on the BSDs yet.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Nix

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jtth 1461 days ago
BastilleBSD facilitates a lot of these things.
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sdze 1461 days ago
In Regards to registries:

My "builds" are also reproducible. Why? I run the same build and deploy script each time. Wow.

For me this all is old wine in new pipes. Cold coffee. Registries.

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